[Sharp-tongued + System + episodic stories + light comedy + ensemble romance + subverting expectations]
Shen Zhi is twenty-six, a committed single by choice and a freelance writer. Her motto in life is, “I’d rather get a cat than fall in love.”
One day at three in the morning, she posts on her social feed, “Does love even exist?” Three minutes later, she is forcibly bound to the [Matchmaking Restoration Bureau] and made temporary Matchmaker No. 73.
The rules are simple: tie 99 red threads, and the System will unbind her and give her freedom.
So she is forced to get to work: passing a note for a coward who has had a crush for three years, reuniting two elderly people who missed their chance fifty years ago, helping a widowed middle-aged person fall in love again, and helping a couple on the verge of divorce say goodbye properly.
She thinks she’s just a worker doing a job, until the target of her seventieth red thread turns out to be her ex.
Then, at the seventy-second, she discovers that not one of the previous 72 matchmakers ever made it to the end.
At the ninety-ninth, the System says, “You draw this thread yourself. You can draw it for someone, or not draw it at all.”
